{"id":337,"date":"2014-01-11T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=337"},"modified":"2014-01-11T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T20:52:08","slug":"sleepless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Sleepless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up at 2am and am alone. It has been almost three hours since and I can&#8217;t get back to sleep. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I woke ML when I messaged and said that she wasn&#8217;t home. I am in a house alone with no one. I am in no condition to be anything but a burden to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The other day I stood on the edge of a rooftop and considered what it would be like to just disappear. Not suicidal thoughts. Just thoughts about running away. Sometimes I wish the last 3 years never happened. <\/p>\n<p>I can only think of one thing that made me happy during those years and the sad realisation that it is useless and wrong comes up.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what I want anymore. Maybe that&#8217;s wrong. I want to be happy. Is that wrong? I seem to always want to make everyone else happy. What about me? <\/p>\n<p>ML kept reminding me all night not to do something stupid. What if I already have? Would I have done things differently?<\/p>\n<p>I need to escape. <\/p>\n<p>This used to be my loft &#8211; a place to relax. Now it is my refuge. A place I turn to because I have nowhere else to go. Where my innermost thoughts can roam free, unleashed and unburdened. But like any refuge, coming back out of it doesn&#8217;t mean that the problem is gone. It is still there. It allows you time to change to suit the problem. <\/p>\n<p>But what if the problem is so multi-faceted that you can&#8217;t cope? What if your support structure is crumbling beneath you? What if you just want to run away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up at 2am and am alone. It has been almost three hours since and I can&#8217;t get back to sleep. Unfortunately, I woke ML when I messaged and said that she wasn&#8217;t home. I am in a house alone with no one. I am in no condition to be anything but a burden &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sleepless<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,39],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140111-045203.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}